"Teine" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... against all the diseases of that year. It is from that fire, thus made in honour of Bel, that the day [the first of May] on which the noble feast of the apostles, Philip and James, is held, has been called Beltaini, or Bealtaine (Bayltinnie); for Beltaini is the same as Beil-teine, i.e. Teine Bheil (Tinnie Vayl) or Bel's Fire."[389] The custom of driving cattle through or between fires on May Day or the eve of May Day persisted in Ireland down to a time within living memory. Thus Sir John Rhys was ...
— Balder The Beautiful, Vol. I. • Sir James George Frazer
... his knights slew them behind. Then saw Childric, that it befell to them evilly; that all his mickle folk fell to the ground, now saw he there beside a hill exceeding great, the water floweth there under, that is named Teine, the hill is named Teinewic, thitherward fled Childric, as quickly as he might, with four-and-twenty knights. Then Cador saw, how it then fared there, that the kaiser fled, and toward the hill retreated, and Cador pursued after him, as speedily as he might, and came up to him, and overtook ...
— Brut • Layamon |
